The Reader’s Choice Survival and Preparedness Library

Ball’s Blue Book of Canning
Ball’s Blue Book of Preserving

Your Boy Scout manual link gives the 1911 edition (probably a reprint ). There are more recent editions.

I liked Gene Logsdon’s book, Small-Scale Grain Raising.

His one on manure is not only funny but good too.

Two More Nonfiction Suggestions:

Dare to Prepare 5th Edition Written By Holly Drennan Deyo…The author is also in the process of creating a 6th Edition for this book (See http://www.standeyo.com/Our_Books/DTP.html)

The Illustrated Encyclopedia of Country Living by Abigail R. Gehring

Daisy, there are a lot of situations where it’s a good idea to create a printed book. If the “book” that you bought was in Kindle ebook format (or any other ebook format), there’s a way to take screenshots (cropped if you learn how) with free versions of software from Gadwin PrintScreen (I still use v4.5) that will sequentially number the page images you make, so printing them out in order via a duplex printer (that prints on the front and back of each piece of paper, which saves enormously on the amount of paper you use, AND the shelf storage space needed) becomes easy and automatic. Sometimes the book is available ONLY in ebook format — which may not do you much good in a long term power outage. Sometimes the ebook format was all you could afford. In any case, this is a personal backup process, and not something where you intend to resell and commit copyright infringement.

The reverse of this has its uses as well. You may have an enormous printed book library that’s way beyond taking with you if you need to suddenly evacuate, whether that’s a bugout, or even a move offshore. So how to cope? There is a world wide community of DIY book digitizers from experts all the way down to hopeful wannabees at:

http://diybookscanner.org/

where you can learn how to make your own book digitizer, with a wide range of designs — some fast, some slow, some pricey, some dirt cheap, with the usual tradeoffs. Some of them even show up on YouTube. The ability to make digital versions of the books that you already have — so you can put hundreds, or even thousands of them, on a tiny cheap flash drive to take with you — is astounding. And remember, there are solar battery chargers to keep a laptop running anywhere in the world.

–Lewis

The Lost Ways is good. And the second one as well

Dare to Prepare by Holly Dayo. Over 600 pages of pure knowledge. It covers almost everything. It is an expensive book on its 6th addition but you can find the 5th addition used on Amazon for $40.